currysauce
Actuary in the making
This has probably been told before, but I read it last night and its quite funny.
Two mathematicians were having dinner at a restaurant, arguing about the average mathematical knowledge of the Australian public. One mathematician claimed that this average was woefully inadequate, the other maintained that it was suprisingly high. "I'll tell you what," said the cynic. "Ask that waitress a simple maths question. If she gets it right, I'll pick up dinner. If not, you do."
He then excused himself to visit the bathroom, and the other called the waitress over. "When my friend comes back," he told her, "I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to respond 'one third x cubed'.' There's twenty bucks in it for you." The cynic returned from the backroom and called the waitress over. "The food was wounderful. Incidentally, do you know what the integral of x² is?"
The waitress looked pensive; almost pained. She looked around the room, and finally said, "Um, one third x cubed?" So the cynic paid the check. The waitress wheeled around, walked a few paces away, looked back at the two men and muttered under her breath, "...plus a constant"...
haha!
Two mathematicians were having dinner at a restaurant, arguing about the average mathematical knowledge of the Australian public. One mathematician claimed that this average was woefully inadequate, the other maintained that it was suprisingly high. "I'll tell you what," said the cynic. "Ask that waitress a simple maths question. If she gets it right, I'll pick up dinner. If not, you do."
He then excused himself to visit the bathroom, and the other called the waitress over. "When my friend comes back," he told her, "I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to respond 'one third x cubed'.' There's twenty bucks in it for you." The cynic returned from the backroom and called the waitress over. "The food was wounderful. Incidentally, do you know what the integral of x² is?"
The waitress looked pensive; almost pained. She looked around the room, and finally said, "Um, one third x cubed?" So the cynic paid the check. The waitress wheeled around, walked a few paces away, looked back at the two men and muttered under her breath, "...plus a constant"...
haha!
